The OpportunityHigher education runs on data but that data lives everywhere. CRMs, SIS platforms, LMSs, financial aid systems, marketing tools, and a dozen other point solutions that don't talk to each other. Enrollment, marketing and success teams make critical decisions with incomplete pictures, and students fall through the cracks because the right information never reaches the right place at the right time.Element451 is solving this with data and AI agents that connect the entire student lifecycle — ingesting, syncing, transforming, and activating data across systems that make a campus run. We're looking for a Product Manager to own our most foundational surface area:Data Platform: Pipelines, schema management, data quality, and the infrastructure that powers everything elseIntegrations Ecosystem: Native connectors, iPaaS partnerships, webhook frameworks, and the APIs that make Element451 the hub of a campus tech stackMarketing & Source Data: The features that help institutions understand where students come from—campaign attribution, source tracking, web analytics, and the tools that connect marketing effort to enrollment outcomesThese aren't supporting features, they're the foundation every other product is built on. You will define the roadmap, unblock engineering, and make it dramatically easier for customers to connect Element451 to their world.Who You AreYou've worked on data products and have a genuine curiosity for how things connect. You understand ETL/ELT patterns, API design, webhook reliability, and what it takes to make an integration feel native instead of bolted on. You've shipped connectors or integration features and learned what makes them hard to get right.You're technical enough to have real credibility. You can read an API spec, write a SQL query to validate your assumptions, and have an informed opinion on REST vs. webhooks vs. event streaming. You don't need to write the code but you need to understand what's hard and why.You're a systems thinker. You see how a change to the data model ripples across downstream features, design for extensibility, and can still make a clear prioritization call in the middle of complexity.You're customer-obsessed. You get energy from talking to IT teams and data administrators, not just end users. You can translate "our sync breaks every Tuesday" into a product problem worth solving permanently.You communicate clearly. You write well, present confidently, and can align engineering, design, sales, and executive leadership around a shared vision—including the unsexy infrastructure work that doesn't make the press release but makes everything else possible.You have experience in product management—or you've been doing the work of a PM without the title. You've owned outcomes, influenced roadmaps, and driven cross-functional work to completion. Whether that came through a formal PM role or through deep technical ownership as an engineer, architect, or analyst, what matters is that you think in problems and solutions, not just tasks.Nice-to-HaveExperience in EdTech or higher education SIS and CRM ecosystems (Slate, Salesforce, Banner, Colleague, etc.)Familiarity with iPaaS platforms (Workato, Boomi, MuleSoft) or building on top of themBackground in vertical SaaS where data fidelity is a competitive differentiatorExperience designing or managing public APIs and developer-facing productsWhy Element451We're the AI student experience and CRM platform for higher education. Hundreds of colleges and universities use us to recruit, admit, enroll, and retain students — and every one of them depends on data moving reliably between Element451 and the rest of their stack.The product team is small, high-leverage, and moves fast. You'll work directly with the CPO, VP of Product, engineering leads, and cross-functional partners. No layers, no politics — just good product work on a problem that matters. As a member of a lean team, you may occasionally own features or projects outside your core data and integration focus — we value PMs who can flex when the work calls for it.
